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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in blended learning have enabled learners all over the world to take online classes. These massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning organizations are considering today because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can we certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Laos to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle issues like low motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a developing need to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive desire for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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